Surgeons: Gunshot, not surgery, killed Ross

Jennifer Ross bled to death quickly on the operating table New Year's Day, a vascular surgeon testified Tuesday.

But, Dr. Anthony Sussman added, her death was the result of a gunshot wound inflicted Dec. 24, not because of doctors' efforts to save her life.

Prosecutors elicited testimony Tuesday from Sussman and a team of fellow surgeons at Memorial Health University Medical Center in an apparent effort to address possible defense challenges to what actually caused Ross to die.

The defense team did not question any of the medical testimony.

Also Tuesday, forensic pathologist Dr. James Downs told jurors Ross was shot from more than a couple of feet away.